topic Re: Sys-Admin Humor in Operating System - HP-UX

Sys-Admin Humor

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:29:35 GMT

I ran across this list the other day while looking for software for my new toy, uhmmm....I mean Palm Pilot. I thought it was pretty good. If you've seen it already, sorry.

Things you don't want your System Administrator to say

1. Uh-oh...
2. Oh S***!
3. What the heck?!?
4. Go get your backup tape. (You DO have a backup tape?)
5. That's SOOOOO bizarre.
6. Wow!! Look at this...
7. Hey!! The Suns don't do this.
8. Terminated?!?
9. What software license?
10. Well, it's doing SOMETHING...
11. Wow...that seemed fast...
12. I got a better job at Lockheed...
13. Management says...
14. Sorry, the new equipment didn't get budgeted.
15. What do you mean that wasn't a copy?
16. It didn't do that a minute ago...
17. Where's the GUI on this thing?
18. Damn, and I just bought that Coke...
19. Where's the DIR command?
20. The drive ate the tape but that's OK, I brought my screwdriver.
21. I cleaned up the root partition and now there's LOTS of free space.
22. what's this "any" key I'm supposed to press?
23. Do you smell something?
24. What's that grinding sound?
25. I have never seen it do THAT before...
26. I don't think it should be doing that...
27. I remember the last time I saw it do that...
28. You might as well all go home early today...
29. My leave starts tomorrow.
30. Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice)
31. Hmm, maybe if I do this...
32. Why is my "rm -r *" taking so long?"
33. Hmmm, curious...
34. Well, MY files were backed up.
35. What do you mean you needed that directory?
36. What do you mean /home was on that disk/lvol? I umounted it!
37. Do you really need your home directory to do any work?
38. I didn't think anybody would be doing any work at 2am, so I killed your job.
39. Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that a problem to you?
40. We're standardizing on AIX.
41. Wonder what THIS command does?
42. What did you say your (1)user name was...?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Bruce Regittko_1 — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:34:41 GMT

43. Maybe a reboot will fix it...

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:43:04 GMT

44. I thought you had the password...

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Maureen Gunkel — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:02:54 GMT

45. Just press this button marked 'off', right?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Curtis Larson — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:09:58 GMT

Does this install script asks to continue before rebooting the system?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Curtis Larson — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:12:58 GMT

which internet sites did you post your resume on?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Curtis Larson — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:15:58 GMT

we can get one of those on ebay for alot cheaper

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Rick Garland — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:22:56 GMT

To clean the floor in the data center, I need to unplug everything...

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Tim Malnati — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 01:57:29 GMT

Where did all these zombies come from?
The shutdown is hung, so I'll need to unplug it instead.
Damned DBA's!
What are these cute little switches on the back of the Jamaica's?
That backup running on the console wasn't moving, so I shut it off.
UPS...What's that for?
I hate all these mirrors, they just waste space!
There is nothing running on the box, so I can just switch it off.

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

James A. Donovan — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 02:56:48 GMT

Sorry, had to delete your files. I needed more room for the alt.sex.bunny-rabbits newsfeed.

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Bruce Regittko_1 — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 03:05:52 GMT

Don't worry - I've got 248 points on the ITRC forums.

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

randy lee — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 03:09:50 GMT

what does this big red switch do?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Alexander M. Ermes — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 06:37:30 GMT

power on that cable ? Impossible... NNNNOOOOOOOO.....

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Dan Hetzel — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 07:20:49 GMT

We should start investigating about Y10K bug right now.

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Stefan Schulz — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 09:17:16 GMT

Hmmm ... when i do this under Windows it works ?!?

We don't need backups we have RAID.

What do you mean you can't find the backup tapes? What backup tapes?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Victor BERRIDGE — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 09:27:46 GMT

Do you believe in gremlins?

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Alex Glennie — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 09:33:20 GMT

True Story ! =>

After calling a customer up to troubleshoot a networking issue :

Qu : more the file and tell me what the last entry in the file is ?

Ans : 78 %

needless to say it was a very very long call

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Darrel Louis — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 09:55:38 GMT

Customer couldn?t mount Oracle(pfs_mount)
Tried everything.
Last question can you take out the CD!!
Oops there is no ... !!!!!!!!!!!!

Have fun

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

Sandor Horvath_2 — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:07:42 GMT

It isn't a bug. It is a feature.....

Re: Sys-Admin Humor

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:10:14 GMT

...works as intended...